Editing Florence (section)

== Notable residents ==
{{See also|Category:People from Florence}}
[[File:Portrait de Dante.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Dante Alighieri]]]]
[[File:Lorenzo de Medici.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Lorenzo de' Medici]]]]
[[File:Amerigo Vespucci (with turban) - cropped.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Amerigo Vespucci]]]]
[[File:Santi di Tito - Niccolo Machiavelli's portrait headcrop.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Niccolò Machiavelli]]]]

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* [[Antonia of Florence]], [[saint]]
* [[Agnes of Montepulciano]], saint
* [[Harold Acton]], author and aesthete
* [[John Argyropoulos]], scholar
* [[Leon Battista Alberti|Leone Battista Alberti]], polymath
* [[Dante Alighieri]] (1265–1321), poet
* [[Giovanni Boccaccio]], poet
* [[Cesare Bomboni]], architect
* [[Sandro Botticelli]] (1445–1510), painter
* [[Egisto Bracci]] (1830–1909), architect
* [[Aureliano Brandolini]], agronomist and development cooperation scholar
* [[Robert Browning]] and [[Elizabeth Barrett Browning]], 19th-century English poets
* [[Filippo Brunelleschi]] (1377–1446), architect
* [[Michelangelo]] Buonarroti, sculptor, painter, author of the [[Sistine Chapel ceiling|ceiling of the Sistine Chapel]] and ''[[David (Michelangelo)|David]]''
* [[Roberto Cavalli]] (1940–2024), fashion designer
* [[Carlo Collodi]] (1826–1890), writer
* [[Enrico Coveri]], fashion designer
* [[Donatello]] (1386–1466), [[sculpture|sculptor]]
* [[Oriana Fallaci]] (1929–2006), journalist and author
* [[Salvatore Ferragamo]], fashion designer and shoemaker
* [[Frescobaldi|Frescobaldi family]], notable bankers and wine producers
* [[Galileo Galilei]], Italian physicist, astronomer, and philosopher
* [[Giotto]] (1267–1337), early 14th-century painter, sculptor and architect
* [[Lorenzo Ghiberti]] (1378–1455), [[sculpture|sculptor]]
* [[Guccio Gucci]] (1881–1953), founder of the [[Gucci]] label
* [[Niccolò Machiavelli]] (1469–1527), poet, philosopher and political thinker, author of ''[[The Prince]]'' and ''[[Discourses on Livy|The Discourses]]''
* [[Masaccio]], painter
* [[House of Medici|Medici]] family
* [[Girolamo Mei]] (1519–1594), historian and humanist
* [[Antonio Meucci]] (1808–1889), [[invention of the telephone|inventor of the telephone]]
* [[Giulio Racah]] (1909–1965), Italian-Israeli mathematician and physicist; Acting President of the [[Hebrew University of Jerusalem]]
* [[Raphael]], painter
* [[Girolamo Savonarola]], radical christian reformist
* [[Adriana Seroni]] (1922–1984), politician
* [[Giovanni Spadolini]] (1925–1994), politician
* [[Antonio Squarcialupi]] (1416–1480), organist and composer
* [[Andrei Tarkovsky]], film director. Lived in the city during his exile<ref name=":1">Bilancio demografico anno 2013, dati [http://demo.istat.it/ ISTAT]</ref>
* [[Evangelista Torricelli]], Italian physicist
* [[Anna Tonelli]] ({{c.|1763}}–1846), Florence born portrait painter in the late 17th century and early 18th century<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Jeffares |first=Neil |url=http://www.pastellists.com/Articles/TONELLI.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304120435/http://www.pastellists.com/Articles/TONELLI.pdf |archive-date=4 March 2016 |url-status=live |title=Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800 |edition=online |date=2019}}</ref>
* [[Maria Giustina Turcotti]] ({{c.|1700}} – after 1763), opera singer<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |date=2002 |title=Turcotti, Maria Giustina|encyclopedia=[[The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians|Grove Music Online]] |series=Oxford Music Online |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|author=Dennis Libby and Carlo Vitali|doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O002685|isbn=1-56159-263-3}}</ref>
* [[Giorgio Vasari]], painter, architect, and historian
* [[Amerigo Vespucci]] (1454–1512), explorer and cartographer, namesake of [[the Americas]]
* [[Leonardo da Vinci]], [[polymath]]
* [[Giorgio Antonucci]], physician, psychoanalyst and an international reference on the questioning of the basis of psychiatry
* [[Giangiacomo Rossi]], and his love [[Alicia Kirilova]]